Books written by Laura B. Edge
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Steven Spielberg: Director of Blockbuster Films
He had the production designer , Elliot Scott , build elaborate miniatures of various sets . Spielberg photographed the cardboard sets from different angles and studied the printed photographs . This helped him decide on the best way to ...
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From Jazz Babies to Generation Next: The History of the American Teenager
Mary Cross, ed., A Century ofAmerican Icons (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002), 53. Lynd and Lynd, 266. TheJazz Singer, DVD, directed by Allan Crosland (1927; Burbank, CA:Warner Brothers Pictures, 2007). Anne Shaw Faulkner,“Does Jazz ...
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Apollo 13: A Successful Failure
Then Apollo commander Thomas Stafford guided the Apollo command module to the Soyuz spacecraft and docked, joining the spacecraft together. A few minutes later, hatches opened, and astronauts and cosmonauts shook hands.
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From Jazz Babies to Generation Next: The History of the American Teenager
Teenagers read many mysteries in the 1930s. Girls could not get enough of Nancy Drew, a feisty sixteenyear-old detective who was smart, resourceful, and inde- pendent. Adolescent boys fol- lowed the fictional exploits of the Hardy Boys.
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Apollo 13: A Successful Failure
"This young adult book tells the story of the Apollo 13 mission in 1970.
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Hilary Duff: Celebrity with Heart
"A biography of American actress and singer Hilary Duff"--Provided by publisher.
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Tad Lucas: Trick-riding Rodeo Cowgirl
Her story of the 1909 Garment Workers strike, We Stand As One, won the Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year award and the Pennsylvania School Librarians Association Young Adult Top Forty award.
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We Stand as One: The International Ladies Garment Workers Strike, New York, 1909
In this captivating story of grit and determination, we'll explore how the strike became a rallying point for both women and men in the labor movement.